“The Little Book of Restorative Justice for People in Prison:Rebuilding the Web of Relationships”
by Toews, Barb
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Intercourse, PA: Good Books The Little Book of Restorative Justice for People in Prison is one of a series of short books designed to provide readers with quick, easy to understand discussions of issues related to restorative justice and peacemaking. In this 91 page volume, Barb...
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“Contrasting National Jurisdictional and Welfare Responses to Violence to Children”
by Waldegrave, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Social Policy Journal of New Zealand. Issue 27 pp.57-76 This paper some approaches to addressing maltreatment of children in OECD countries and explores whether these approaches could be use to improve outcomes in New Zealand. Comparison are made between the Anglo-American model...
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“Developing Effective Community Policing Programs Through a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model”
by Pfeifer, Jeffrey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) The Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services. 4(1):22-27. This article suggests that there is a growing disconnect between the practice of community policing and the specific examination and evaluation of the concept. Specifically it is suggested that there is little...
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Violent Crime and Victim Compensation: Implications for Social Justice.
by Smith, Hayden P.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Violence and Victims. 21(3):307-322. Restorative justice offers several innovative methods designed to heal the injury that the offender may have caused to the victim. One of these innovative methods is victim compensation, a form of income redistribution designed to...
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“A Father’s Journey from Murder to Forgiveness”
by Ktiamisa, Azim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) reclaiming children and youth 15:1 ife pp. 15-18 After a young boy killed Azim’s college-aged son, the author left his career in investment banking to build a powerful program of violence prevention. Azim joined with the grandfather of his son’s killer to form the...
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“The Vengeful Logic of Modern Criminal Restitution”
by Manaugh, Sara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Law, Culture and the Humanities 1:359-375. Restitution, a perpetual presence in the life of the law, dwells on the margins of our modern legal landscape, and invokes a pre-legal moment in which injured parties bore the responsibility – or the privilege of themselves...
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“Investigation of compensation source, trait empathy, satisfaction with outcome and forgiveness in the criminal context”
by Ristovski, Adela
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Australian Psychologist. 40(1): 63 – 69 Victims of criminal transgressions can receive compensation from various sources including government agencies, compensation orders instructing offenders to pay compensation, and as a result of victim – offender...
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Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice
by Van Ness, Daniel W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Third Edition. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Co. Restorative justice views crime as an event that harms the victim, the offender, and the community; and it views the community’s response to crime as an effort to address those harms through various means. The first...
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Restorative justice and adolescent sexual offending
by Mercer, Vincent
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) “Newsletter of the European Forum for Restorative Justice” pp.6-7 Adolescent sexual offending presents a number of challenges for workers within the criminal justice setting. Many of these challenges are especially problematic for this area of work but few are so...
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The First School of Restorative Justice in Poland
by Nielaczna, Maria
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) “Newsletter of the European Forum for Restorative Justice” pp.4 The Association for Legal Intervention, in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences, has created the first School of Restorative Justice in Poland. The initiators are three members of the...
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Statistics: data recording on VOM and RJ cases in Europe
by Eyckmans, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) “Newsletter of the European Forum for Restorative Justice” pp. 3 This brief article describes the exploration of the possiblity of creating a joint data recording system for tracking the development of restorative justice throughout...
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Victim-offender mediation for minors in Greece
by Panagiota, Papadopoulou
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) “Newsletter of the European Forum for Restorative Justice” pp. 1-3 This article is a brief report on the introduction of victim-offender mediation (VOM) for juveniles in Greece as well as on the practical implementation of this measure....
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Transformative justice: the transformation of restorative justice
by Harris, M. Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft editors, “Handbook of Restorative Justice” A Global Perspective. London and New York: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group pp. 555-565 This chapter explores the meaning of the term ‘transformative justice’, paying...
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The good samaritan or the person in the ditch? An attempt to live a restorative justice lifestyle
by Boehrer, Fred
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) In, Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft editors, “Handbook of Restorative Justice” A Global Perspective. London and New York: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group pp.546-554 The application of restorative principles is found within numerous programs: family group...
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